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Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
Pages 474-560 + 32 pages of ads. Features: The Six Skulls, Part II (sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings";The Reformation of Bill Allerday - an amusing Australian story; The Human 'Tank' - Mike Inik constructed a suit of armour out of solid steel and schemed revenge for twenty years; The Boat-Dwellers - wonderful photo-illustrated article on the thousands of British families who live on boats; "R.N.-W.M.P - The Riders of the Plains - authoritative stories of some of their exploits; Strange Stories of the War, including "Maroc", mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; On the Borders of Tibet, Part VI - article with amazing photos; The Trouble at Punta Gorda - a planter's struggle with drink-crazed labourers in British Honduras; Circumstantial Evidence - the October 4th, 1900 tragedy at Rochester University, New York state; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; Railway Building in the Wilderness, Part II - fantastic photo-illustrated article on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad through the Canadian Rockies; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with openings to bottom of backstrip. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour Oldsmobile ad inside front cover; Join CUSO and spend a weekend with a real live duck-hunting maharajah; The West grows by Moose Jaw just sits and watches the trains go by; The Ship that Died of Shame - the HMCS Inch Arran; Bill Edwards of Oakville and his "Truth Paste" toothpaste; The Battle for the Warrendale Children; Harold Town Creates the Connoisseur's Christmas Tree - article with many colour photos; New Hustle in the Holy Land - it is polishing itself up to boost tourism; Nicholos Monsarrat - an interview before he left after living for fourteen years in Canada; Nightcap - it's TV with a leer and a plunging neckline, a busty, bawdy baby that nobody loves... just the viewers - article with photos; A Second Look at the "Facts" about Cancer and Smoking by the author of "You May Smoke"; George Feyer and his Comic Art (with a postage stamp theme); Eric Levinson claims Harry Houdini speaks to him from the grave - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Botany 500; What's New in Medicine; Nice ad for the 1967 Chrysler Newport; Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile ad; GM ad for their new energy absorving steering column; Code ad with Christmas theme on back cover. Average wear. 2"x2" piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 97-192, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: A Fall From the Clouds; A Woman Alone in China - part 1; Blackmailing a Railway; Interviewing Mount Robson; Imprisoned Beneath the Sea; Short Stories - Farringway's Luck, Catching a Tartar; Eight Thousand Dollars; Insect Oddities; Byways in Sind and Baluchistan; The Pirates of the "Tai On"; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
560 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The Great Northern played an historic and sound role in the settlement and development of the Northwest." - from Foreward. Map endpapers. Wonderfully illustrated in colour and black and white. Attractive green cloth-covered boards with bright gilt lettering. Clean, bright and unmarked. Minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1907130806London: London and South Western Railway 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London London and South Western Railway 1907 and 1908. Quarto three volumes bound as one 4 A-S 5-172 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps; 4 A-K 3-192 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps plus a leaf of advertisements for White Star Line steamers; and 4 A-C Ca-Cb D-G 3-192 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps. The original full-colour wrappers and three-colour maps are included in the pagination. Early half leather and marbled papered boards later rebacked with cloth retaining most of the original backstrip; new endpapers; leather corners and original backstrip a little worn; acidic paper a little tanned and brittle with insignificant short tears to some edges; text at the foot of the wrappers slightly shaved when rebound; rear wrapper of the third time table a little soiled with an old tape repair; overall in excellent condition. The foot of the retained backstrip is stamped in gilt 'Supt. Superintendent of Line'; this might explain why these three handsome Edwardian time tables from the heyday of the London and South Western Railway are in such wonderful shape. London and South Western Railway paperback
343761 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. This fine illustration was done for "The Express Messenger" the employee magazine of American Railway Express precursor to American Express. unknown
192818880n.p.: Southern Pacific Lines 1928. First edition. Rubbed and retouched area at center of rear board else fine. Original reptile-skin patterned boards oblong quarto 8.75 x 15 inches 20 leaves printed on rectos only. 9 large group photographs several portrait photos of SP executives. Laid in loose are 1 5.5 x 9.5-inch cyanotype photo print of a locomotive works and 1 vintage 6 x 8.5-inch silver print photograph of a coal-fired locomotive and crew. Also laid in is a typed letter dated San Francisco July 3 1929 signed J. N. Clark to Mr. O. B. Schoenky presenting this album. Dated ink stamp recording receipt of Southern Pacific Co. Los Angeles Cal. July 5 1929 at top of sheet. Both sender and recipient are pictured in the management portraits portion of the album. Founded in 1865 1929 was Southern Pacific's heyday with 13848 miles of their own track. A fine piece of railroading history. Southern Pacific Lines hardcover
1889331Chicago: Poole Bros 1889. Very good. Folding pamphlet with 14 panels approximately 13 x 24 inches unfolded. A few very short separations along folds. Light tanning. Scarce pamphlet promoting lands available along the route of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad and associated lines in Colorado and Nebraska in the late 1880s. According to the text of the publication "Public lands are melting away" and it goes on to describe several counties in Nebraska including Thomas Hooker Grant Sheridan Box Butte and Sioux Counties which can be accessed via the Burlington Route. The areas advertised in Eastern Colorado are described as the "rain belt" of the state where "Irrigation is absolutely unnecessary." The reverse of the pamphlet prints a map of the rail lines west from Omaha and Missouri across Nebraska to Colorado with the areas of available land shaded in pink. OCLC locates three copies at Yale Princeton and the Denver Public Library. Poole Bros unknown
187724454Hamilton Ontario: Times Printing Co 1877. Railroad collectible. Good condition. Large imposing broadside printed in a variety of type fonts for the historic Canadian railway the first to be chartered in the province of Canada West today Ontario in 1834. From Monday 14th May 1877 Until Further Notice.<br /> <br /> Includes the Toronto Line and US stops New York Boston Albany Buffalo Suspension Bridge over Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago.<br /> <br /> Schedules printed for the Loop Line; Toronto Line; Wellington Grey & Bruce Division; W. G. & B. South Extension; London Huron & Bruce Division; London and Port Stanley Division; and Sarnia Division. <br /> <br /> The Superintendent is Chas. Stiff; F. Broughton General Manager. Frederick Broughton severely cut costs at the railroad as a result of the 1873 financial crash; he was feared and hated within the company but managed to turn the Great Western into one of the best run railways of North America. <br /> <br /> At its peak the Great Western system covered 852 miles with its main operating base in Hamilton. The GWR's role as a bridge line between the New York Central and Michigan Central Railroads was highly profitable.<br /> <br /> Large printed sheet 17 1/2 x 25 1/2". Top edge chipped period folds flattened some period pencil calculations at left margin. OCLC: 1007494327 records a copy at Library & Archives Canada. Times Printing Co unknown
3999S.l.:: The Railroad: Printed by F. P. Hoeck in Mexico City. Six halftones; the letterpress includes a time table and a description of a journey through the fruit lands. Single sheet printed in green on both sides 7 5/8 21 inches accordion folded into six panels 7 5/8 3 1/2 inches. No other copy located. Dating of this brochure. The railroad operated from 1898 until 1945; it was nationalized by the Mexican Government in 1925. The owner of record was Louis T. Haggin the son of American mogul James Ben Ali Haggin who was a great friend and business associate of the railroad’s General Manager the colorful Gen. John Baptist Frisbie. Frisbie died in 1909; the General Manager listed on this pamphlet is his son Luis Platon Frisbie. However William K. Boone’s Wikipedia entry states that he was the General Manager from 1909 to 1926 “except for a few times during the Mexican Revolution 1910–1920 when he had to seek refuge in the American Embassy at Mexico City and move temporarily to the US fearing that his life was at stakeâ€. The latest citation to the printer F.P. Hoeck that we could find was 1907. H. T. Greene the Traffic Manager was active in the late 1800s and as that as the early 1900s. S.l.:: [The Railroad: Printed by F. P. Hoeck in Mexico City],. unknown
190653062Salt Lake City: D.E. Burley 1906. 1906. 9" x 8" in color pictorial wrappers folded in half and showing a giant geyser on one half and Old Faithful on the other. Rear wrapper offers a system map of the Oregon Short Line Railroad and its connections. 932pp. Illustrations. Maps. Itinerary. Information on Yellowstone's new railway station; what Jim Bridger saw in Yellowstone around 1830; followed by a 6-day itinerary describing the route and what one can expect to see and do; information on what one should wear; a timecard showing heights and durations of eruptions of various geysers park regulations and information on a stage ride from Monida MT to Yellowstone. Black and white photos of five modern hotels of the Yellowstone Park Association mud geyser fountain geyser Hayden Valley the Upper Geyser Basin Biscuit Basin Electric Peak Obsidian Cliff etc. Color photographs throughout include Great Falls Castle and Bee Hive Geysers Pulpit Terrace Gardiner Canyon Castle Geyser the East Entrance to the park Minerva Terrace the Upper Falls etc. Rear wrapper offers a system map of the Oregon Short Line Railroad and its connections. At center is a folded map 18" x 15 1/2" entitled " Oregon Short Line Railroad and Yellowstone National Park and also showing trails and finished/unfinished wagon roads. Agent's stamp to front wrapper; rubbing to center fold and front wrapper along with light soiling and light wear to extremities. Very good. D.E. Burley, 1906. unknown
188732696Springfield: H.W. Rokker 1887. Hardcover. First Edition. 5.75 x 9in. lxxiv. 621pp. Large folding map. Bound in recent archival cloth with title label. NEAR FINE. Shows the title page with slight edge rubbing and even margin toning otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. H.W. Rokker hardcover
1867102296Pamphlet 8vo original printed wrappers black and white folding map 13" x 16" 15 pp. Some minor soiling to wrappers abrasion in top corner of front wrapper affecting margin line a little but not affecting text map joined to page on investment offering making it a little hard to open page normal aging; otherwise very good. This pamphlet relates to a bond offering maturing in 43 years the company was issuing to raise capital. The funds would be used to complete the railroad's connecting systems. Included is typical financial data supplied with these offerings from a report by the chief engineer. Railroad bonds were a popular investment during the second half of the 19th century which helped prompt Henry Varnum Poor to publish his "History of Railroads and Canals in the United States" in 1860. This work enabled investors to see comprehensive financial information on just about all railroad companies. This pamphlet includes a very nice folding map of "The Saint Paul and Chicago Railway.". Ramaley & Hall,
3013New York: The Company by Tubbs Nesmith & Teall Printers 1854. . 8vo buff wrappers front printed Sabin 32767 New York: [The Company] by Tubbs, Nesmith & Teall, Printers, 1854. unknown
2989London: The Company by Truebner & Co. 1857. . 8vo pale-green printed wrappers London: [The Company] by Truebner & Co., 1857. unknown
2472Boston: The Company Alfred Mudge & son Printers 1878. . 8vo buff wrappers front printed some minor fragments missing from the bottom margin of the first few leaves not affecting text One holding library only in OCLC. Lists all capital expenditures for the year bridge building and other repairs; a breakdown of all shipments sent and the usual financial disclosures Boston: [The Company] Alfred Mudge & son Printers, 1878. unknown
2992St. Louis: The Company:Printed by Buxton & Skinner 1905. . Large 8vo printed color stiff wrappers; back wrapper somewhat soiled Microfilm holdings only in OCLC At the foot of the front cover is the legend " Presented to the Confederate Veterans at their Re-Union Loouisville Ky. June 14th 1905 with the Compliments of the Passenger Department "Cotton Belt Route". Ownership signature of "E. W. Winkler" St. Louis: The Company:Printed by Buxton & Skinner , 1905. unknown
193249039Portland: Spokane Portland & Seattle Railway System 1932. 1932. First edition. 9" x 8" in self-printed color-illustrated pictorial wrappers with cover art photo showing Spokane Portland & Seattle train gliding through the Columbia River Gorge. 16 pp. Printed in blue-green yellow & orange. Photo illustrations. Pictorial map on back cover by Routledge. A scarce railway travel brochure illustrating the routes along the Columbia River between Vancouver and Pasco up the Snake river and through Eastern Washington towards Spokane. The railroad was jointly owned by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway and the photo illustrations within this were taken by the Kiser Bros. Sawyer Arthur Prentiss and Hutchins. Routledge was a brilliant PNW commercial artist and cartographer well known for his splendid aerial birds-eye views and pictorial maps which with great skill made it possible for travelers to visualize the scenic vistas. Light rubbing and with minimal wear to the extremities. Near fine. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway System, [1932]. unknown
343761 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. This fine illustration was done for "The Express Messenger" the employee magazine of American Railway Express precursor to American Express. unknown books
1881950No place listed: Forbes Co 1881. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 16mo 5 ½" x 2 ¾"; 26pp; chromolithographed stiff pictorial wrapper steamboat to front and Hotel Pemberton illustration to rear; string binding; 17pp advertisements 4 with illustrations; 2 maps; small chip to fore-edge rear wrapper and one to bird's-eye view map bottom corner; near fine. Held in 7 WorldCat libraries. Timetable for the steamboat and railroad with two maps: center-fold color map of the ferry route and a black & white bird's-eye view of Melville Garden Downer Landing Hingham Massachusetts. Boston newspaper advertisements for furniture tableware clothing beer bicycles builders grocers and more. Forbes Co unknown
18861077Omaha: Burlington Route 1886. About very good. 9616pp. Original red printed wrappers. Spine worn and chipped corners worn. Internally clean. A book of "social amusements" and games "Presented with the compliments of the Passenger Department of the Burlington Route." The final few leaves contain a map of the Burlington Route from Chicago to Denver as well as numerous advertisements. Burlington Route unknown books
186323142New York: Colton 1863. Folded into original 16mo red cloth binding a bit shaken with title stamped in gilt on the front cover: MAP OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK ACCOMPANYING THE LEGISLATIVE MANUAL Weed Parsons & Co. Map is @25" x 27 1/2" hand colored and enclosed within an ornamental border. Inner margin @10" tear affecting the border but not the map light occasional wear else Very Good. Colton unknown books
186323142New York: Colton 1863. Folded into original 16mo red cloth binding a bit shaken with title stamped in gilt on the front cover: MAP OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK ACCOMPANYING THE LEGISLATIVE MANUAL Weed Parsons & Co. Map is @25" x 27 1/2" hand colored and enclosed within an ornamental border. Inner margin @10" tear affecting the border but not the map light occasional wear else Very Good. Colton unknown
